evading escorts

[oscar19681]

Originally Posted by kalijav

I have seen quite a few tutorials on how to attack a ship/convoy, but I haven't found anything regarding the escape
If there is, please accept my apologies for the useless post

If there is not, how is everyone doing once the attack has been launched and the torpedoes have hit the target ?
I thought about just diving at 150 all stop, silent running. I think it might work, well it actually worked once but I'm not sure if it works often enough to be considered as a valid escape tactic.

I'm wondering, if you are spotted, how do you know if an escort has you on asdic or sonar ? Is hearing them increase their speed the only way to guess that you have been found ? And how can you escape their asdic or sonar once you have been spotted ? I have trouble with this.
And when depth charge are falling on you, what's the best option ? I have used the automated scripts, but it goes ahead flank and i'm sure they can then locate me even more precisely.
Although it is surely better to be detected and stay alive than die

I have spent 2 hours trying to evade 4 escorts with no luck, and I'm trying to figure out what I could have done.

I know it's a lot of questions at once, but if I could get some hints, that would be great

Ps: I'm using IRAI from tdw, default settings.

Indeed IRAI is a tough nut to crack even for experienced kaleuns.

Here are a couple of tips.

When the torpedo,s have found there targets and the escorsts are still far away enough change course and try to remain as much with the convoy while remaining silent running . If you are within the convoy itself the destoyers are gonna have a hard time makeing depth charge runs since the other ships are in the way.

When you are outside the convoy when you have attacked it try to sneak away from it.

When a destoyer has spotted you on the surface and he,s not to close make a run for it on the surface to put some distance between you an the detroyer. This way you can make some more course and depth changes before he starts throwing the cans sometimes at night attacks he might not see you at all and you can just sneak away on the surface. I would only recommend this at poor vission situations and not a daylight with exellent weather.

When being pinged (asdic) the more frequent the pinging becomes the closer he is. The way to go here is to go deep . say 150 to 180 meters. If you not getting there fast enought increase speed a little bit . If the depthcharges are to close for comfort go deeper but only when the depth charges become a danger. You must keep in mind that you need to have a buffer of about 30 to 40 meters of depth left till max depth to dive to otherwise when they have pinded you down at max depth all you can do is go up.

Also keep changing course depending on where the destoyer is and to present an unpredictable target and try to keep your front or back towards to Destoyers to present a small target for the asdic returns.

If you get caught on periscope depth before an attack and the escort is to close for comfort forget the attack and crash dive , you live to fight another day.
same goes for after the attack nevermind the noise just go to a safe depth and shut down engines of go silent and use the forward momentum and possible the fact you sliding into the depth and change course , this way you can silently change course and depth rapidly without the escort knowing about it it can be a life saver.